Drafting Bronny just covered some of Lebron's salary.... Jeanie bout to rake millions more.
Hoping Bron would open up the full MLE _________________ “The main goal for the Lakers is to win a championship. All I care about, all we care about, is to raise another banner in the rafters.“
Can we add to the title he is willing to take a paycut? The fans who come here only on occasion during the off-season are not going to know what's going on without it
LeBron willing to take less to allow full MLE--for the right guy?
That would piss off the Union.
Would definitely set a bad precedent for 40 year old players looking to get the max. And other basketball players would be upset that there's more money to go around.
I think LeBron has to take a huge pay cut now for us to get an MLE and fill out roster. The MLE will hard cap us at the first apron. We are $49M under the first apron without counting DK, Bronny, Christie, Prince, Castleton, and a couple more.
$13M for the MLE leaves $36M
$3.8M for DK leaves $32M
Realistically Bron would have to take something in the mid $20M range for us to get the full MLE and fill out the rest of the roster under the 1st apron hard cap.
LeBron willing to take less to allow full MLE--for the right guy?
That would piss off the Union.
What did the Union say when Tim Duncan took less money in his final few seasons?
They weren’t happy
Taking paycuts helps the team but ya, not a good look amongst the players. And Lebron has lead the charge of taking power away from owners/teams and giving it to the players.
I’d imagine Lebron taking a paycut won’t sit well with his peers.
I think LeBron has to take a huge pay cut now for us to get an MLE and fill out roster. The MLE will hard cap us at the first apron. We are $49M under the first apron without counting DK, Bronny, Christie, Prince, Castleton, and a couple more.
$13M for the MLE leaves $36M
$3.8M for DK leaves $32M
Realistically Bron would have to take something in the mid $20M range for us to get the full MLE and fill out the rest of the roster under the 1st apron hard cap.
People said MLE but didn't clarify which one. I could see him taking a paycut to get the tpMLE. That's only $5M for the MLE and opens another $10M or so they can spend, meaning Bron is getting closer to $40M. The taxpayer MLE should be enough to snag a big like Goga.
Point guards: Russell Reaves Vincent (JHS Bronny)
Two-guards: Christie Knecht (Lewis Reddish)
Forwards: LeBron Vanderbilt Rui Prince
Bigs: Davis Hayes Wood
+ tpMLE
Players who aren't NBA ready/ caliber in parentheses. In my ideal world, Bronny signs a 2-way and Reddish gets waived and we don't need to make a desperate move to clear roster space for tpMLE.
I think LeBron has to take a huge pay cut now for us to get an MLE and fill out roster. The MLE will hard cap us at the first apron. We are $49M under the first apron without counting DK, Bronny, Christie, Prince, Castleton, and a couple more.
$13M for the MLE leaves $36M
$3.8M for DK leaves $32M
Realistically Bron would have to take something in the mid $20M range for us to get the full MLE and fill out the rest of the roster under the 1st apron hard cap.
People said MLE but didn't clarify which one. I could see him taking a paycut to get the tpMLE. That's only $5M for the MLE and opens another $10M or so they can spend, meaning Bron is getting closer to $40M. The taxpayer MLE should be enough to snag a big like Goga.
Don't we have TPMLE if he takes max anyway? Or no? _________________ Previously CamReddish
Joined: 16 Apr 2001 Posts: 12634 Location: Pasadena, CA
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2024 12:48 pm Post subject:
Brawn13 wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
dont_be_a_wuss wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
ribeye wrote:
LeBron willing to take less to allow full MLE--for the right guy?
That would piss off the Union.
What did the Union say when Tim Duncan took less money in his final few seasons?
They weren’t happy
Taking paycuts helps the team but ya, not a good look amongst the players. And Lebron has lead the charge of taking power away from owners/teams and giving it to the players.
I’d imagine Lebron taking a paycut won’t sit well with his peers.
I disagree.
This is year 21 for Lebron, not year 10.
He’s worth over a billion dollars.
He has been paid like $750 million in salary.
He has that right to get an haircut without controversy.
He’s a different animal altogether.
I welcome a reduced pay to help the team improve the roster.
Not a single peer will complain.
Duncan did it.
Dirk did it.
lol at worrying what the union would think. Lebron is 40.
If Lakers can find a suitable talent with Lebron taking a paycut, I can easily see him do it. He’s a billionaire now and has no need to sign mega contracts at his age and experience anymore.
And we also have his son now. Dude is not gonna leave at all. We actually have the leverage here. _________________ Lakers Offseason Goal:
- Draft Edey or Ware (Another guard)
- Sign Jonas or Claxton (NOBODY)
- sign and trade DLO (nobody wants him LMAO!)
- sign a coach that’s not an idiot (JJ: LeBron Bestie/might be a racist)
LeBron willing to take less to allow full MLE--for the right guy?
That would piss off the Union.
What did the Union say when Tim Duncan took less money in his final few seasons?
They weren’t happy
Taking paycuts helps the team but ya, not a good look amongst the players. And Lebron has lead the charge of taking power away from owners/teams and giving it to the players.
I’d imagine Lebron taking a paycut won’t sit well with his peers.
I disagree.
This is year 21 for Lebron, not year 10.
He’s worth over a billion dollars.
He has been paid like $750 million in salary.
He has that right to get an haircut without controversy.
He’s a different animal altogether.
I welcome a reduced pay to help the team improve the roster.
Not a single peer will complain.
Duncan did it.
Dirk did it.
Two of the greatest, most respected players ever.
As did, the universally acclaimed greatest quarterback of all time, with all those rings. _________________ "A metronome keeps time by using a Ringo"
If lebron takes enough of a pay cut to allow us to sign Klay for 13 mil he is officially a laker IMO. I don’t want to her another negative thing about the man from laker fans. That would mean he is all in for one last run at a chip and I’m all for it. Back to back and retire leading the lakers past Celtics. Laker legend. Goat.
Man…him being willing to take enough of a cut so we get that MLE is huge!!!!!
We could end up with CP3 and Klay without losing anything. We could then package DLo and JHS with a couple frp to bring in an impact bigman!!!
Mitchel rob?
Ayton?
Kessler?
Who’s available ? . _________________ “like I never left”
Joined: 14 Apr 2001 Posts: 144805 Location: The Gold Coast
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2024 5:34 pm Post subject:
Megaton wrote:
lol at worrying what the union would think. Lebron is 40.
If Lakers can find a suitable talent with Lebron taking a paycut, I can easily see him do it. He’s a billionaire now and has no need to sign mega contracts at his age and experience anymore.
And we also have his son now. Dude is not gonna leave at all. We actually have the leverage here.
The league will just put in more restrictions in the next CBA to prevent players from doing the same in the future. It’s what they have always done. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023.
IF he takes the paycut, I can't wait to see the haters (including among the fan base) somehow spin it to disparage him
They're working on it right now
Perfect narrative of Bron can do no right in some peoples eyes.
Finding a negative about him taking a pay cut is an all time low here.
If the haters come out to bash him after that I’ll team up with you to bash them back. It “would be”, not “is” and all time low. We shouldn’t get riled up over something that hasn’t happened yet tho, might not. _________________ “When it looks as if it is a realistic possibility, I want to focus on winning a ship like it’s a goal that can’t be denied. I didn’t see that this off season.”
^ I call BS. This is Bron BS media tactics. He knows the Lakers can’t do anything significant with Gabe Vincent money. This is all for show. When it doesn’t work out and he takes the max he can point to this and say seeee I tried to help the Lakers after they hired the guy I wanted for a coach and made my sons dream come true (like the spoiled little brat who gets a pony for her birthday), but they failed.
^ I call BS. This is Bron BS media tactics. He knows the Lakers can’t do anything significant with Gabe Vincent money. This is all for show. When it doesn’t work out and he takes the max he can point to this and say seeee I tried to help the Lakers after they hired the guy I wanted for a coach and made my sons dream come true (like the spoiled little brat who gets a pony for her birthday), but they failed.
I stand corrected Miggz, it “is” an all time low, we don’t have to wait for “was” as it’s happening now. My bad, you were right.
If LBJ offers and Rob fails that’s on Rob…not LBJ…saying that nothing can be done with the MLE is a cop out smelling of hater cologne. Prematurely blaming it on LBJ then devaluing it to Vincent type money…that’s ~$2.5m lower than the MLE to exaggerate the impact…puts that narrative in an all time low status imo. _________________ “When it looks as if it is a realistic possibility, I want to focus on winning a ship like it’s a goal that can’t be denied. I didn’t see that this off season.”
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